A pony car with a history that spans 35 years, the Pontiac Firebird is one of the most iconic nameplates in the world of ...

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Porter, a car designer who helped create the shapes ... Mr. Porter was particularly proud of a detail he designed for the hood of the Trans Am: “a pair of highly effective Ram Air scoops that ...

After Ramirez and Vega parted ways, Vega went through a bankruptcy but rebuilt his reputation as a custom-car designer. Vega, the owner of The Auto Firm in Kendall, has designed sports-car ...

Gene Winfield, a custom car designer for films such as “Blade ... It also became Catwoman’s Catmobile in “Batman.” Winfield also designed the vehicle used in “Get Smart” and customized ...

Gene Winfield, a pioneering legend in the hot-rod world who created custom cars for numerous films and TV shows including Blade Runner, the original Star Trek series, RoboCop, Get Smart!

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The legendary hot-rod builder and custom car designer behind some of Hollywood’s most futuristic vehicles, has passed away at the age of 97. Known as “The King of Kustoms,” Winfield left ...

Riley designs won championships in IndyCar, IMSA, the Grand-Am and the Trans-Am. Following a fall ... His Lynx Formula Vee design, which captured four SCCA National Championships in the 1970s ...

That flame perhaps burned brightest with the Trans Am GTA of the early 1990s. By 1991, the Firebird was in the swan-song years of its third generation, refreshed with design cues from the 1988 Pontiac ...

See All 19 Photos Russell tells HOT ROD, “I went on eBay and found this terrible drag racing Trans Am up in Michigan. We took out all of the drag racing stuff and sold it. The car itself was ...